Bishop Kearney has at least two basketball players who are prospects for NCAA Division I men’s basketball.

Bishop Kearney center Chinonso Obokoh and his teammates should play in Class AA next season, given the talent in the Kings' projected lineup.

The team’s roster could receive a boost next season, from a transfer from the Washington, D.C. area.

Add the Kings’ strong record during the last decade, if not two, and it’s difficult to argue that Bishop Kearney does not belong in Class AA, even though it is a Class C school based on enrollment.

Thankfully, Bishop Kearney coach Jon Boon agrees.

“We told the (Section V Non-Public Schools Classification) Committee last year that if we won Class A we would move up,” Bishop Kearney athletic director and committee member Chris Belmont said. “They agreed with it.

“Coach Boon likes to challenge his kids, play the best competition. That’s where most of it is. I think it’s fine.”

Classifications are based on student enrollment. Each team that plays out of it’s classification has its status reviewed each year. So are dominant programs, like Aquinas football, winner of the last six Section V Class A championships. The Little Irish were moved to AA for this upcoming season.

Lofty ranking at Fairport: A big win draws attention, and Fairport’s boys lacrosse team may be headed for a national ranking.

The Red Raiders topped Ithaca, now No. 44 in the ESPN POWERADE Fab 50 national rankings, 12-7 back on April 14. There was no let down after that, as Fairport then defeated Canandaigua and Aquinas last week to remain undefeated after six games.

Fairport, No. 2 in the New York State Sportswriters Association Class A state rankings, play at Webster Schroeder, 7 o’clock tonight.

Melissa Ercoli, a daughter of Karen Ercoli and former Rochester Rhinos coach and current team president Pat Ercoli, plans to major in physical therapy and sports psychology at the Division I college.

East boys basketball forward Torrence Dyck, player of the year in the Rochester City Athletic Conference, joined girls basketball point guard Aaliyah Dunbar at a signing ceremony the same day at their school. Both are headed to junior colleges.

Dyck, a 6-foot-5 swingman, has a scholarship to Palm Beach State College, a Division I National Junior College Athletic Association school in Florida. Dunbar will go west to play at Capser College, a Division I two-year school in Wyoming.

Pittsford Mendon senior Gabrielle Sacheli signed a letter of intent to play golf at Rutgers University at her school last Friday.

Sacheli was medalist five times in the Pittsford team’s 10 matches and was named to the Democrat and Chronicle’s All-Greater Rochester team for the fifth time last season.

Aquinas Hall of Fame: This year’s Aquinas Institute Hall of Fame induction class includes five former athletic figures and the school’s 1998 state champion hockey team.

Former coach Bob Cortese, quarterback Jon Loiacono, soccer goalkeeper Marybeth Bell McConnell, football player Bob Niermeyer, plus the Philip and Ann Wegman family are part of a class of seven who will be honored April 29 at the Hyatt Regency in Rochester.

Ray Manuszak will be inducted for his meritorious service to the school. Manuszak, who coached track and field at Irondequoit, has taught science for more than two decades at Aquinas.

Jeff DiVeronica has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1994. A native of Canastota, N.Y., where he played soccer, basketball and baseball, “Devo” began his career at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette before returning to Rochester in 1993. The St. John Fisher College graduate also covers the Rochester Rhinos soccer team and Syracuse University basketball. He founded the Canandaigua National Bank High School Sports Show, which airs Saturdays at noon on WHTK-AM (1280), in 2003. E-mail Jeff at jdiveron@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@RocDevo

James Johnson has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1996. The St. John Fisher College and Edison graduate also has provided features and game stories tied to NASCAR, professional golf, baseball, hockey, boxing and tennis. His career began in 1995 at the Press-Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, where he helped cover Section IV high school sports. E-mail James at jamesj@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@jjDandC